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Record 1 1988-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ornamental Glassware
  • Types of Glass
CONT

In the Stourbridge are a Thomas Webb & Sons, which operated under various ownerships in the nineteenth century, was especially noted for its late nineteenth-century cameo ... and rock-crystal glass engraved by William Fritsche, Frederick Kny and Franz Joseph Palme.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Verrerie d'art
  • Sortes de verre
DEF

Overlay gravé en camée à l'acide, en Angleterre, fin du XIXe siècle.

OBS

Overlay. Nom donné à une technique du verre utilisée avec beaucoup de brio par un certain nombre de manufactures, dans la fabrication de presse-papiers et, d'une manière générale, dans les verres à deux ou à plusieurs couches superposées, puis gravés en camée. Les fameux cameo-glass ont fait les beaux jours des verriers anglais du siècle dernier.

Spanish

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